Archives - 31 January 2018, Wednesday

John Voelcker Jan 31, 2018 Follow John Add to circle 2018 Nissan Leaf Enlarge Photo Of the 90 million or so new vehicles sold globally last year, plug-in electric cars made up only a tiny proportion, roughly 1 percent. But the auto industry works on long product cycles and buyers tend...

Moreover, the widely-publicized efficiency gains could be overstated, at least according to Al Rajhi Capital. The firm said that in the third quarter of 2017, the “average operating cost per barrel has broadly remained the same without any efficiency gains.” Not only that, but the cos...

It’s taken 36 races, 20 drivers, 13 cities, ten teams, five continents, four years and one all-electric racing series to get to this point but from this moment onwards, everything is set to change. On Tuesday in London, the ABB Formula E all-electric racing series unveiled its next-ge...

BP has announced that its venturing business has invested $5 million in FreeWire Technologies Inc (FreeWire), a US-based manufacturer of mobile electric vehicle (EV) rapid charging systems, and plans to roll out FreeWire's Mobi Charger units for use at selected BP retail sites in the ...

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It was only a few years ago that many people dismissed electric cars as rattle-trap golf carts that could barely go on the highway. That was before Tesla demonstrated that a well-engineered electric car could beat the pants off of any gas car on the market for raw acceleration. We jus...

Self-driving startup Nuro, founded by two former lead Google engineers who worked on the famed self-driving car project, has introduced a fully autonomous drive vehicle designed to transform local commerce. Nuro’s fully autonomous vehicle reshapes the cost structure of goods transport...

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Series organizers hope the new car’s unique looks help the series to continue to grow and, ideally, improves the show through better racing. One thing that will definitely help, I think, is the fact that season 5 will see the drivers finish the entire race distance in a single car, in...